Blinds

We purchased black out shades from o.co because we knew how much they were a lifesaver in the nursery.

before: the plastic blinds that did little to block the light coming in.

Josh helping again.

they have been great at keeping the sun light out... though now that we have fallen back, it's not so necessary for night time.  Good for nap time though.

Bookshelf

Remember how this shelf unit used to be in the kitchen?   Josh hasn't played with the pots and pan (much to my ears delight) so Jared suggested we move it up to Josh's new room as a bookshelf.

I think it looks great.

Navy Pier Children's Museum

Jared took the afternoon off, so we decided to use our reciprocal membership from the Kohl's Children's Museum to get in to the Navy Pier Children's Museum

They had a pretty interactive fire fighter exhibit.  

Josh up the ladder, with the fire hose

sliding down the pole

they also had a building exhibit

And Kidtown...with a replica of a CTA bus.  Josh liked driving the bus...

Measuring

We had the tape measure out to measure our garage for an upcoming project and Josh really wanted to measure Jared.  The result:  Jared is still 5'11"

snack time at Madden's house

Happy Halloween!

Halloween at school...we did go to school as a monkey, but the classroom gets kind of warm and that costume is pretty hot, so i dressed him in another costume underneath, in case he got warm

playing with bones jenga

playing with pumpkin potato head*

this was a big hit last week too, playing with rice.  the good thing about it, I guess, is that when it's clean up time, Josh goes over and gets the broom and dust pan...now we just got to work on the preciseness of getting the spilled rice in the dustpan...in time

At rug time, we have been playing pass the ball to the music...you know the game...when the music stops, the person holding the ball is out?  Well, we are first working on passing the ball!  I thought this was so cute this girl held Josh's hand the whole time and he didn't seem to mind one bit!

Trick or Treating at night - Josh was much more into trick or treating this year...ran up to the doors and rang the doorbells (he could reach).  Saying Trick or Treat and even thank you!

we met up with Woody aka Gabe

*I actually bought something similar to do at our house, but I couldn't figure out how to stick the potato head pieces in the pumpkin...perhaps it's pregnancy brain, but duh, I guess you could just drill holes in the pumpkin...we'll try next year.

Saturday....Saturday, Saturday

building a really BIG tower, using all the blocks...it was bigger than Josh

Dinner, yes he's wearing a hoodie, hat on top of that and gloves...not sure why he was so cold, it was 70 in the house but it's what he wanted

and not to throw you off... the Eagles game is Sunday, but Josh wanted to wear his Eagles shirt, and wouldn't give up until Jared did too...since I'm writing this during the Eagles game on Sunday, the score is currently 34 to 7, perhaps wearing the shirts a day early is a good luck charm!